As of July 2018, I am working at a great software company in Boston, with caring and smart coworkers. If you would like to work with me there, look up the positions at soroco.com

I stole parts of this website from Julia Evans's website. Instead of going to her Github, I just reverse engineered it. Hurray, unnecessary work!

In my free time, I like to read all sorts of books (recent favourites: "The Difficulty in Being Good: The Subtle Art of Dharma" and academic essays on the Harry Potter Universe.)
I like reading 1000-yearold love poetry translated from Sanksrit.

I do a little homebrewing during my free time. It's been mostly Kombucha, but there have been multiple batches of rice wine and 'Kraut more recently!

I go by 'Shirish' which is pronounced She-Reash. My last name is pronounced Pokhared -- Poe-Kh-Rael.